Seen and Heard

A friend of mine has a copy of a Victorian advertisement for a school for Young Gentlemen in Brighton, conducted by the Misses Young and Hoggins. Part of it reads: “Laundress and a seat in church… £5 5s per annum. Each pupil is requested to bring six towels and a silver fork.”

The Misses Young and Hoggins’s attitude is typical of the snobbishness and hypocrisy which once surrounded education.

Today, it is run on much fairer lines. The young are seen and heard.

They express their feelings and opinions about personal and world problems in countless schools all over the country.